Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan dropped her phone in the worst place possible!

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Why is taking at-home passport photos so hard?! Jono is a psychopath because of what he does when he watches TV... We chat with PJ about her last day. Megan's crushed by this Liam Lawson news! Ben caused a mass evacuation! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganInstagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Friday as we're heading into the podcast, heading into the weekend, of course, the end of Merch Madness. We've got more merch to give away next week, though, on the show. Yeah, looking forward to that. We just, at the end of the show, got talking about tradies and when they come to your house, do they like to be offered drinks? A cup of tea. A cup of tea. It feels uh you say that it's an obligation and uh nine times out of ten they do say no they don't take you up on the offer uh would they like to just get in get out do the work roger is it yeah how are you jono and ben and

megan here from the hits oh lovely mate lovely just uh you're texting are you pro or anti being offered things oh pro mate love a good coffee and coffee and a biscuit oh that's nice great good to know what do you do

what trade do you work in painter decorator self employed modern coatings and you're taking people up on the biscuits and teas and coffees oh yeah

definitely I suppose you're there a while too it probably is like if you're in and out it's probably not you know but if you're there all day, it's probably not, you know. But if you're there all day or something, it probably is really nice.

What's your preference of Bickey? They've got all cameo creams, you know. Oh, the cameo cream. That is a biscuit that I have not had in a while. Tim Tam, you love a Tim Tam? Yeah, Tim Tam, yep, yep. You've got to do the old Tim Tam and Straw, you know, your bitey Tim.

Yeah. I'll tell you what's really a biscuit that you used to have a lot in your childhood, the old Hudson's chocolate chip cookie. Oh, yeah. It transports you straight back to your primary school. That was really good. The reason they never did anything for me, those chocolate chip cookies. Oh, I'm a fan of those.

What about hundreds of thousands with the pink icing? Nah, my kids love those, but yeah, nah, not for me. Again, I'm a backer of those. Love those, Megan, yeah. Oh, well, hey, listen, a biscuit connoisseur here. Ginger nut. Ginger nuts too, mate. Yes.

Ginger nut is underrated. Wait, did you say you put jam in a ginger nut? No, the Pam's ginger nuts. Oh, the Pam's ginger nuts. I was just thinking, what if you put, like, jam and then put two ginger nuts, like a little. Oh, like a little Oreo ginger nut thing with jam. With jam. I think that might be quite nice.

I'd love to try that one day. Yeah. Spends his day painting in between biscuit eating. Biscuit sampling. I'm lucky at the moment. I'm standing out at Big Bay looking out at the Manukau Harbour. It's absolutely gorgeous. Oh, that's nice.

Not a bad office. Not a bad office. Must be nice. Hey, lovely to talk to you. Have a great weekend. Yeah, have a good day. Have a good weekend. We start the podcast with things that have fallen in the bathroom.

John O'Byrne and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Can I just do a bit of admin? Tidy up some admin. Someone's texting 44877 in regards to the Anaheim trip. Ah, monkey emoji. The monkey's face is in the hands.

Oh, yeah. That was super unclear. Then that emoji face with the, ugh. What was it? Was it buy some Minnie Mouse ears? They're just wanting to clarify. It was buy Minnie Mouse ears. There you go.

You got it right. That is your first of three activities. So there you go. Then we have a lot of banter and we confuse people. Yeah, that's the thing. We probably do, actually. We should shut up. You're right.

That was on us. Apologies. Now, yesterday on the show, we're doing a game called Face to Face Time. Seeing if anyone in our contacts list will answer a Face Time call. Very threatening mode of comms. Yeah. Very intrusive. And yesterday, Clark

Gayford, former first man of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern's partner, Ben, was tucked away in your little contact list, your hot little contact list. Well, you used to make a TV show with Clark many, many years ago, and so you decided to grab my phone to FaceTime Clark. He's overseas. You were like, he's not going to

answer. I was like, no, there's no way he's going to answer. But it came up as my number on a FaceTime. He was very surprised that we were calling, and we were all there, and he answered. Yeah, he did answer. And we caught him off guard because he was cooking dinner, and this is how it went. Oh, well, it's nice to see you.

I'm sure you're regretting every part of answering this. I'm sorry. Well, Ben, I mean, you still owe me $1,500, so I thought that you finally got on there. Hey, I'm doing so cage I mean you still owe me 1500 bucks so I thought that you finally haven't got on there I'm so cagey about calling you when a call comes through

and you're expecting money and all you see is a full face of Jono it was quite the turnaround but good to see you guys there you go

so he got out of there scot-free pretty much and we got talking after the show about you making a TV show because we did I made the first couple of series of an old TV show used to make pulp sport in clark's flat

we edited in his kitchen on one computer we i think we borrowed the computer and it was all yeah very low budget stuff and we spent a lot of time at the flat but we got kitchen seems like an interesting location for an editing it was nowhere else to go really otherwise you're in someone else's room so yeah or the lounge. The fat mates want to watch TV. Oh, right. So the kitchen was there. That was the only place they had a table. So we'd spend a lot of time at Clark's flat.

There was sort of four of us on top of his flatmates at the time. And we were talking about after the show how there was an incident with the bathroom, with the toilet not flushing. And we just kept kind of filling up gradually. Not in a great condition. Everyone was like, oh, God. We kept talking about it between us, going, what's happened?

We don't know. No one's admitting to that. Be careful when you flush and it's got higher and higher and we're like, we're going to have to call someone. Every time you flush, are you praying to the toilet gods? You're like, please don't.

Hopefully he's going to go away and it never goes away. And so eventually we rang a plumber and he came around and he was like, does anyone, we're all sitting there, and he's like, did anyone know what could have gone down there? What happened?

And we're all like, no, no, we don't. We looked at each other. And then he went away, did his thing, came back out with a glove and in his hand was a power shell. A big old power shell. And he was like, this was up inside the toilet. Who put a power shell in the toilet? So it was on top of the toilet. It was like, you know how you decorate So it was on top of the toilet. It was like, you know how you decorate.

Oh, decorations. Yeah, on top of the toilet. And one of the other guys who I'm making the show with went, oh. I'm like, oh, what? Why is he saying oh? And he was like, oh, yeah, when I went to the bathroom, that fell in. And then I decided I might try and flush it. And he's like, I guess it didn't flush.

And we're like, looks at him. We're like, what's a week we've been talking about this toilet? Anyone know what's happened? Anything unusual taking place in there? He's like, maybe it could have been that. And we're like, looks at him, we're like, what's a week we've been talking about this toilet? Anyone know what's happened? Anything unusual taking place in there? He's like, maybe it could have been that. And we're like, yeah, you think? Most people, when they see it go down there, they're like, we'll have to pick that up.

Yeah, exactly. It's a bit of an out of sight, out of mind system, though, isn't it, the toilet? If you can get it up, passed out at the bottom there, you can forget about it. Well, that's what I did, but it didn't quite flush. Closest thing to home that Shell ever got. So we wanted to know this morning on 0800, the hits of 4487,

what went in the toilet? Was it like a power show? Was it your phone? There's lots of things that people drop, right? Oh, I've had a phone in the toilet. It still worked. Were you playing at home or away? Were your location was home?

I was at Spark Arena. Oh, Spark Arena at Spark Arena. Oh, Spark Arena. Yeah, Spark Arena. Oh my gosh, that's busy. I fished it out. Bare handed. Oh, Megan. There's a low point in your life, isn't it?

Yeah, but I've told everyone. Spark Arena. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We wanted to know on 0800 The Hits, what ended up in the bathroom, in the toilet? What can happen?

Yes, heaps of text coming through here. Just a list of things. I was just looking here online. Things that should never go down. Wet wipes. They're highly publicised. Wet wipes for many years were sold as biodegradable, so we all thought you could get them down.

They do the old fatbergs. Don't know. It sounds like some sort of rejected get them down. They do the old fatbergs. Don't know, it sounds like some sort of rejected villain from the X-Men, the fatberg. Paper towels and tissues. Don't chuck down there. No. Paper towels are quite thick.

I understand that. Tissues, I'm guilty of chucking a tissue down there. Tissues don't disintegrate as well. They're made up differently. Yeah. Cotton buds, Q-tips, they can cause blockages. Dental floss can act as sewer string, so it clings onto the side they can cause blockages dental floss can act as sewer string so it clings onto the side and can cause blockages can't do hair can't do medication can't do cigarette butts what it's pc madness what can we flush down the toilet nowadays they

can't do medication doesn't that come out in the wheeze anyway that's a great point yeah they're always doing the meth testing aren't they as Jeez, there must be some pretty active fish out there at the moment. Let's get Ellie on. Good morning to you. Good morning. Lovely to have you on, Ellie. What have you flushed?

Well, what ended up there? Well, if I need to, in the late 90s, you know, it was pages and phones and, what else did they do? Keys, cigarettes, you know, the picket, and lighters. Pretty much, if you couldn't find something, you looked in the load.

Oh, right. So you had dropped pages, cigarettes, lighters, wallets. No, my nephew. Your nephew? Oh, nephew. Was that a thing he'd just done? He'd just decided that's where it needed to go? Yeah, from about a year and a half to two.

Oh, yeah. Was he flushing it, though, or was it just sitting in the bottom of the bowl? It depended how fast you could get to it. Yeah, right. Tighten that up. Get that away. He's like, wait till you're in the doorway,

staring you dead in the eye, and he's like, flush. Great 90s New Zealand childhood there with the little baby running around with a pack of cigarettes, flushing them. Really summing up parenting in the 90s. I love it. We're going to hook you up with a random pack of merchandise so you can be winning something pretty cool when that arrives. So thanks so much for your call.

Thank you. Yeah, it's Merch Madness. We've collected all this merch since the beginning of March because Megan didn't like it so we've put her in a fashion parade and you could win anything of, jeez, hundreds of items we've been sent from companies around New Zealand. Marie, good morning. Good morning. Great to have you on.

What was flushed? So we moved into a house that we'd brought and discovered after three months that the systems weren't working as well as they should, that the previous owners had been flushing their fish tank gravel

down the loo. Oh, the gravel from the fish tank. No idea why. They give it a bash, you know, you're like, oh, maybe it will. Because they think that it's just going to go out to the ocean or wherever they think it's going to lay. I can understand the thinking and the logic

behind it. So did you have to pay for the removal of the stones, did you? Yep, we had to get a plumber in and it was backed up for Africa basically Wow, tell you what It was a rocky road to Africa

Yeah, we all know how backed up Africa gets Well, I tell you what You're going to be backed up with some merch Merch madness We're going to send you out a merch pack You might get a Bunnings t-shirt A stress ball And a VIP people diary and notepad

Who knows what could turn up at your house, but congrats. Shame we didn't have any plunger merch. Yeah. Good on you, Marie. Should we tell you one more? Let's do it quickly. Anonymous, welcome. Hello, how are you? Yeah, great to have you on. I was really intrigued as to why you need to come in under anonymous here, but

what ended up down the toilet? I'm a school teacher and one camp we had, we had a student that flushed all their bottom items down a toilet and flooded all of the toilets in the camp. They flushed their what items, sorry? So, like, shorts, underwear. It's really confusing.

All of their, so anything that was going around the legs was going down the toilet? Yeah, and so about 10 o'clock at night, we worked out that the toilets were blocked, and there were about 20 toilets on the block at this camp, and the water was rising, and we ended up having a parent who saved the day. Oh, wow.

Who's responsible for this? Do you just see some sort of pantless kid standing over there quietly in the corner? John O'Bannon and Megan. The Podcast. The Hits. Of course the Manuka Fuel Symphony Festival on the Saturday night which is going to be epic. 40,000 people

going to head along to not only see the symphony orchestra but also Basement Jacks, Darude and a whole lot more will be epic. Now, passports. Have you had to renew a passport recently? When I got married last time, I renewed it. Oh, you changed your name on it.

There's a lot of admin when you do that, eh? Yeah. Banks, passports, driver's license. I've literally, in the past couple of months, only now changed my driver's license. Yeah, don't blame you. For the first time. So I've changed my name twice now,

and I still had my birth last name. I see why people just stick, you know, keep the name, you know, keep the origin, just keep the OG name. A lot less hassle. Yeah, so anyway, I was just having to renew a passport. And now you can take your own photos.

It's been an option for a few years now. You don't have to go into the chemist and have them there pull down that little... They still do that. They still do it. But I imagine less and less people do that. So what you do is you take your photo and then you have to upload it into the system

and then the portal decides whether this photo is eligible and it meets all the criteria. And boy, oh boy, that is probably one of the most painstaking processes of all time. The exercise was like pulling fingernails. So they're like no smiling, no glasses. Lighting has to be correct. No shadows behind you. Like it just has to be.

Too much space above your head. That's right. You have to be like in the right spot, right? No, hair on your face wasn't an option for me. And so it took me about, I'd say 12 times. And each time it's like processing, decision pending, decision pending to the point where I do a little photo shoot and then I back up four.

I was like, hey, it's four different options. See how they go. And then they tell you that it's not good and then you have to do it again. They're like, yeah, they're not compatible. They then they tell you that it's not good and then you have to do it again. They're like, yeah, they're not compatible. They kind of give you some sort of watery reason. And then even when

you get one through, they're like, this is still going to have to be checked. Yeah. By an actual photo expert too. So if you ever want to suck up three hours of your life,

just try taking a passport photo for a bit of a laugh. Try taking one for your kids. Oh yeah, I remember doing one with Indy when she was a baby and they were like, we had to lie her down on the chemist.

And then they were like, you have to look at the camera and all those criteria. Front on. And you have to lie her on the ground. Yeah. And she was like. Did you lay her down on the chemist or the chemist floor? The floor. Sorry, yeah.

Not on top of the chemist. It was on the floor of the chemist. And then we're like standing over the, you know. And it was just like, this is. She doesn't understand what we're doing. I was trying to get my two-year-old to look straight so that because you can't have your head tilted in any way and so i got one that i thought was straight i came back and it was like it's not straight so i got ai to tilt it slightly perfect

towards the camera comes back it seems you've used artificial intelligence to alter this image i'm trying can't get away with anything nowadays. And everyone looks miserable on their passport photos. They do, yeah. I reckon we need two. We need one on holiday, going on holiday. It's a happy, smiling one. And one, you have your miserable one when you come home. Yeah, you're right.

Back to work tomorrow. Everything you had to go through to get the photo accepted. Just been told to be made redundant. Channel that energy. Yeah, that's your miserable coming home passport. Two options. That's what I'd like. That's a really good idea.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. Liam Lawson today, the Kiwi F1 driver who is out of the Red Bull team but still in the Formula 1 as well. And maybe he'll be in a better car. Positive stuff for Liam and he'll get some points next weekend. You're being very positive.

I'm trying to be. It's not a better car but he can race it better. Yeah, well it's not as be. It's not a better car, but he can race it better. Yeah, well, it's not as hard. It's not as hard to drive. Yeah, exactly. Megan's been in a deep state of depression all week over this matter. You want to back him? He's a Kiwi, and it's awesome to see that.

I've met him, and he's so nice, and this is his dream, and his whole family have got into this dream, so I hope he's okay. Like you say, parents sold their house for him to pursue this dream. Hey, you never know, could blast through and win first in this car. Yeah, let's hope so. Yeah. Okay, so I've been called a psychopath pre-show, and I don't even know. Yeah.

There was a very nonchalant comment about something you did last night, and I was like, hang on a second, you're a monster, because I don't know anyone who would do this. You are watching adolescence, and that is a hard watch, I'll give you that. Right. You're making monster because I don't know anyone who would do this. You are watching adolescence and that is a hard watch. I'll give you that. Right. Making a big mistake. Yep, about the kids who sadly murders a girl and is 13 years old.

Not a true story, but it definitely feels pretty real and gritty. Based on true happenings in the UK. Yeah, stuff that's going on with social media. Yeah, so you're watching that and I'll give you it's a hard watch, but you watched the third episode last night. They're all one shot, so they capture you. This is the one where he's being interviewed by the therapist, and you mentioned before, the little boy,

who's an extraordinary actor, never acted before, because they have to do it in one take. He was tired. He yawned. She ad-libbed across the thing. She's like, am I keeping you awake? And you kind of see him smile, and then they just roll on with the scene.

She's probably like, we are not starting this again. But it kind of, I didn't know that that was. And it probably kind of works. It does. The smile makes him look a bit more, yeah. But it is an amazing episode, because it's just the two of them in an interrogation, one shot, the whole thing. So it's very intense very intense and john is like i haven't quite finished it no you i was like oh

how much have you got left i said five minutes i don't know why i didn't know why that was a big red flag he's watched an hour long episode a gripping episode and he stopped it at five minutes what was it stopped for reasons of like I've got stuff to do I need to or was it just like

okay I'll come back to that I'll come back to that you know I'll catch the tail I'll catch the tail end of that and then regroup and then slide on into four yeah that is a bit weird

why is it weird I understand if you're like jeez I've got to go I can't watch anymore and things have got to do also because you're going to go back to it and realise that the credits

are like three minutes. Well, I'll enjoy the credits. I'll appreciate the second Tony, the second Gaff, and all the hard-working drone operators. If I get tired, I'll be like, pause, see how much is left, and be like, I can do five minutes. I'm not pausing on five minutes left. I've also vacuumed up stones on my driveway as well, okay? For going down this path. I do a lot of weird things.

Weird things that I think are perfectly normal, but then when I say them out loud, people look at me sideways. So you're going to go back today and watch the last five minutes of your show? And I'm going to enjoy every minute of those five. Maybe it's a hack for not, you know how sometimes you watch the end and then you're like, I've got to go now and watch the new one, because they hook you on over. So maybe that's a hack.

Stop it before you get to that point. You give yourself the blueness. Blue your own ones. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Stay for PJ in the afternoons for six months. She's on maternity leave having her second baby.

And we thought we'd surprise PJ with a bit of a phone call. Yeah, nothing like a surprise phone call at 25 to 8. Here we go. Hello. Happy giving birth to you. No, at my kids' daycare they sing, happy last

day to you. And giving birth. Happy last day to you. And getting a human out of you. Happy last day. Can you tell I'm already going nuts How excited are you to get this human out of you? At this point

I'm pretty excited But I also don't want them to come just yet Because I want two weeks of chill Is it an any day situation? Well yeah, I've literally just gone 38 weeks And someone texted me Oh sorry, that's my toddler making me come on the team Yes I'm coming Kelly

I'm coming Someone texted me saying I don sorry. That's my toddler making me come on the tent with him. Hang on. Yes, I'm coming, Charlie. I'm coming. So, yeah, someone texted me saying, I don't know if this is like madness or radio racing's genius in case she goes into... Oh, sorry. Hey, Charlie, mummy's on the radio. Yeah, this is with one, too. Remember, there's another one coming. You're going to have to navigate two, surely.

Okay, I'll shut the tent. Oh, my God. Sorry, guys. Is that all right? Shut the tent. No, open the tent. No, two, surely. Okay, I'll shut the tent. Oh, my God. Sorry, guys. Is that all right? Shut the tent. No, open the tent. No, shut the tent. Okay, we're in the tent.

Hand us over to Charlie. What's things live across to the tent? Can we talk to John and Ben and me? Come in. Say hi. Hi, Charlie. Hi, Charlie. How's the tent?

Come in. Come in. Yeah, let her in there, mate. Let her in there, yeah. My husband set up a tent out on the lawn just in case they need to go and do like a trip away while it's just me and the baby. Oh, that's cute. Genius from him.

He's getting out of the house, but he's not really going to go out of the house. But at the same time, he's like, oh, it's a cute thing I'm doing. Genius play. All night sleep. He's going to be spending a lot of time in that emergency tent. Yeah, I know. I think it's quite a genius plan on his behalf. There's a TV in there, a full fridge.

He's now living in that tent. So you are going on mat leave for six months. Matilda Green's stepping in to look after Maddie. How are you feeling? I am like really excited. I'm like craving the hibernation. But I know that I'll get to a point where I'll be ready to come back. But like right now, I'm like, okay, this is great.

I'm going into like wintery, kind of colder months. I'm just going to fully hibernate, fully like nest. And yeah, you guys all have two kids and you all stopped at two kids. And I feel like that's quite telling. I also had an older boy and a younger girl. And like, I'm torn between telling you how it went and not. I think ignorance is bliss at this point, you know? Let's just say Andrew and Megan's husband's living in a tent.

Ben and me have been living in tents for about 12 years. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, some people are just like breeding, don't they? Some people are like, we're going to have 24 kids and they love it. Well, that's it. And they say, you know, when you're ready, like they know when you're on your last one. I don't know if I'm on my last one, but I'm

pretty sure I'm on my last one. Wait until it comes out and then decide. Yeah, yeah. Oh my god. Guys, he's locking me in his tent. I can hardly breathe. Well, we'd better let you go then before you run out of oxygen. Hey, thanks for calling, guys. I'm sorry. All the best.

We'll be thinking of you. I feel like we could have called it a better time. Yeah, well, we've calling, guys. I'm sorry. All the best. We'll be thinking of you. We could have called it a better time. Yeah, well, we've done it. This is just an accurate portrayal of what my next six months are going to be like. Yeah, we're going to miss you at the hits. All the best. And we'll catch up with you soon. But if you go into labour.

I'm not dead yet. If you do go into labour in the morning while we're on here, give us a FaceTime. Oh, 100%. Yeah, totally. Just after 8 o'clock. Keep us up to date with the dilation too, mate. Love you, PJ. Whip us a text.

Thanks, PJ. See you, mate. Bye. Catch Maddie and PJ this afternoon. Matilda Green, who you all know from The Bachelor, the first series of The Bachelor and many other things as well, is going to be filling in for PJ. So that's very exciting.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The heads. Pax this morning. I'm like, you've got to wait, guys. You've got to wait. No racing for Formula One this weekend, though. Next week in Japan,

and we won't be seeing Liam Lawson in the Red Bull car. You tried to manifest that he would keep his job. You've put a picture up, or Grace, producer Grace, put a picture up of him with a love heart saying manifest, manifest, and three pictures of Liam sort of montaged. I want that picture down now. What do you take down? Stuff you, Red Bull. I'm along the lines

of a lot of people where I think they didn't give him a chance and actually Max Verstappen, the champion that he's racing beside in Team Red Bull, has liked a post that accuses Red Bull of bullying him and not giving him a chance. It does say, hey, I'm not an expert on Formula One management and sports management, but it feels like two races you haven't really given him a chance. Yeah, but someone who really obviously earned his spot, went through quite a lot to get it, and then suddenly he's gone. I don't think anyone can argue that he's fast and they've had trouble with the car.

Yeah. Those two things alone give him a chance. Didn't he have the second fastest lap time? Second fastest lap time in the first Grand Prix. So he's got the potential. Yeah. You're right. Yeah, and he's had car troubles.

Yeah. It's just crazy. I mean, who doesn't have car troubles? You take the mechanic, it costs you a whole lot more than you. Oil're right. Yeah, and he's had car troubles. Yeah. It's just crazy. I mean, who doesn't have car troubles? You take the mechanic, it costs you a whole lot more than you. Oil, yeah, overheating, window wiper's not working. It happens to the best of us. Do you know, I'm worried about him because the whole world's going in on him right now and he hasn't posted anything on his social media since the first Grand Prix.

I would have said the opposite. I feel like everyone's backing him. Aren't they like, this is a shocking treatment? This is a shocking treatment? This is a shocking treatment? The tables are turning slightly where people are accusing Red Bull of being the bad guy for the first time. But he did talk to media after the Chinese

Grand Prix, so the last Grand Prix. And they asked him, you know, about how much time he's got. I wanted to have you clarify. You said you need time in this car and you don't have time. What did you mean? We're in the you don't have time what did you mean we're in the season i mean that's uh you know we're two races in um and we're racing and it's something that um yeah it's something that you'd love to have you know 60 test days and things like that um and i know a lot of the other guys tested a lot out of season and unfortunately it's

not something we did but it's something we can do in this car anyway, so it's just one of those things. It's not an excuse. It's just something that I've got to get on top of as quickly as I can. It is an excuse. All of those other drivers, I know, but I'll say it for him, all of those other drivers got to test their cars. He didn't.

We are thinking of him Liam Lawson I'm sure he'll bounce back And you know He's still in all Formula 1 as well So we're very proud of him The Herald had a good meme See that meme

It said Red Bull clips your wings Good meme I'm not drinking it anymore Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The best pub in New Zealand Has just been announced A Teano

A pub in Teano Called the Fat Duck Gastropub Is apparently the best pub in New Zealand has just been announced. A pub in Te Ano called the Fat Duck Gastropub is apparently the best pub in New Zealand. It's always the fat something, isn't it? These days it used to be, well, this duck, you get fat shame with duck maybe. Fat lady's arms. We can't do that anymore.

Fat lady's thighs. They were doing all of them for a while there, weren't they? Doesn't necessarily mean negative though, does it? No. Oh, you're right. I never had a great time at those places. Thanks, guys. Safe lives.

That's a great saying. Let me tell myself. That's a great saying. So I'll tell myself, too. But anyway, let's not get into that right now. You've seen my milky white thighs before. We want to talk about... Ended lives.

Have you caused evacuations before? Yeah. Evacuations. Mass evacuations. A friend of mine, he drives trucks, does like logistics and works like, you know, truck drivers. They work very hard. And he was staying at a hotel.

I don't want to name the hotel or the region because people will know. But it was sort of regional New Zealand during the weekend. He got home late and he thought, you know, I might treat myself, run a bath. I love that. That's how I treat myself. I love a bath. Last time I had a bath, I hadn't had a bath for years, and I had one recently, and I did that thing where you slide your bottom back and forth on the, and you know, to get the, you know,

you create the wave. We need to stop the story here. You know, you create the wave in the bath like when you were a kid. Thrilling. Anyway, so he started this bath, and then so I'll just sit on the bed, and he woke up to people busting into the room going, wake up, wake up, you've got to get out. You've got to get out.

Was he sitting on the bed naked in anticipation of the bath? No, no. Well, I didn't ask. I didn't go into those details. But all of a sudden he was out in the car park with everyone else from the hotel and he had flooded the hotel with the bath. Now I think insurance will cover it. Yeah, but still you feel terrible.

He said, you know that thing when you walk into a room and you can tell people have been talking about you? Yeah. He said, imagine that with a whole car park of guests at 2.30 in the morning. He's the reason you don't get a lot of baths in hotel rooms anymore. No, you're probably right these days.

It makes me so sad. I caused a bit of an evacuation in a hotel in Sydney. I was there for work and for some reason I ordered like a breakfast and they came with a toaster and I was like, oh, this is unusual.

On a tray? Yeah, a toaster was part of it, but toast. It was like toast in a hot drink. Well, that's because sometimes if they pre-toast it by the time it gets to you,

it's cold. But what I didn't realise there must be some sort of bread stuck into the toaster. So I put the toaster on, and not for long. I turned it right down and went to iron a shirt. And then suddenly, just boom, boom, boom, knock on the door. I'd set off all the alarms, like silent alarms.

I'm in my boxer shorts. There's a guy that manages there. I'm ironing here. He's like, you've got to get out now. I'm like, I've got no top on. I was just in boxer shorts. He's like, now there's a fireman guy. I don't know how quickly the fire department came, but they're rushing up the stairs. I'm like, oh, my God. I'm outside just in boxer shorts he's like now there's a fireman guy I don't know how quickly the fire department came

but they're rushing up the stairs I'm like oh my god I'm outside in my boxer shorts the whole lot of the residents going well this is humiliating are you sure they're firemen

and not male entertainers yeah this sounds like a very sexy like start of a movie gotta get those clothes off you stat you were ironing a shirt right

yeah did they get you to turn off the iron yeah I don't know it's in hindsight now I don't know it was all a bit of a rush I don't know Take those clothes off, you stab. You were ironing a shirt, right? Yeah. Did they get you to turn off the iron? Yeah. I don't know. It's in hindsight now. I don't know. It was all a bit of a rush.

I don't know why I didn't put the shirt on either as well. I know. I was like, can you just take the shirt with you? I just was like, got to get out now. And I did. And it was very embarrassing. So what have you had to cause an evacuation of? Maybe if I pushed the wrong button by accident,

flicked a switch, bumped into a fire alarm. Yeah. Planes. I imagine a lot of planes. You know, people say or do the wrong thing on a plane. John O'Bien and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, I won't go into the hits.

Have you caused a mass evacuation? And we have just been inundated in the last 10 seconds with a flurry of amazing texts. Producer Ali going to get those on at the moment, but let's go to Megan. How are you? Good, how are you? We're good. You're going to be very happy because first and foremost, we've been collecting merchandise, corporate merchandise through March because Megan hates it. And we're giving it all away today. You've got yourself a merch pack.

Oh, thanks. Do you like merch, Megan? Yeah, I love it. Sure. Loves merch. For the purposes of this, yes So you could, hey Could be any one of these things We've got a t-shirt We've got an accessory or a hat It could be an Acid Morph metal band t-shirt

A gold sport key ring Or a Mr. THC bandana Could be Who knows what's going to turn up But what happened to you? What did you cause evacuations with? I was in my first year of halls at university, and I decided to cook sausages on the element.

And it was about 11 o'clock at night. And bear in mind, I was also one of the fire wardens. Those are late night sausages too, 11 p.m. sausages. What are you having 11? Had you had a few beverages? Maybe. And the canteen wasn't open. So I was like, oh, you know what?

I've got some sausages. I'm going down to the shop. And I panicked because my hall fire alarm, like the floor fire alarm started to go off. And I didn't want the full hall to go off. So I put the sausages in the shower. And it caused a lot of pain. Sunny sausages.

I had to basically evacuate the whole hall. Oh, that's great. Did they know it was you? Yeah. Not many people you talk to and you hear them say, I was showering some sausages. Did you go back? I was young.

No, fair enough. I get it. Did you go back and eat the sausages? Absolutely not. I don't know if you've ever and eat the sausages? Absolutely not. They were burnt as. I don't know if you've ever tried to put water on something that's cooking, but it just goes black.

Oh, that is very funny. Well, Megan, at least you didn't do this. We've just received a text here. Back in the day, the Wellington Rugby Sevens, we were all staying in a backpackers. We got back and we decided it would be a fun game to light our farts on fire. Oh, no. How did that cause evacuation? Set off the fire alarms, complete madness.

We had to escape on the ferry first thing in the morning. Oh, no. That is really good. We'll get Michael on. Good morning to you, Michael. Good morning. How's it going? Yeah, great to have you on.

Mass evacuation. What was your fault? Yeah, it was filling work for a mate. He asked me to clean some filters in the aircon and the roof vents around the building around the floors yeah and uh there was a valve right next to where i was working and uh as i went to move i knocked that valve the pipe burst boom water started went through the tiles basically pushed the tiles out of the roof and just caused a huge flood.

Oh, no. So the roof collapsed. Yeah, like just, you know, the tiles in between the petitions. Yes, yeah. And so was this an office building, obviously? Yeah, yeah. And then the worst part was the sprinkler guy that turned up. It was a year behind me at school, and I knew a fireman,

and he was like, oh, was that you joking? Oh, no. I'm just filling in. How many people were evacuated? a year behind me at school and I knew a fireman and he was like, oh, was that you joking? Oh, no. I'm just filling in. How many people were evacuated? Oh, the whole building. Was it a high-rise? Was it a big high-rise building?

Oh, it was 23 or 24 stories. Oh, you poor thing. There we go. See you later. Well, there you go. Short spurt with air con. One and done. There you go. John O'Bannon Megan go. Short spurt with the air con. One and done. There you go.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Evacuation, because that's what we're talking about now. Have you caused mass evacuations? Halls, malls, bowels. We'll take them all. We're desperate this morning.

Want to be called anonymous? Remain anonymous. Welcome to the show. It's hard when you go to anonymous because you're like, oh, now I've got Gerard. No, you've pushed the wrong button. Oh, remain anonymous. Welcome to the show. It's hard when you go to anonymous because you're like, oh, now I've got Gerard. No, you've pushed the wrong button. Oh, Gerard, welcome. Don't blame it on anonymous. Now, Gerard wasn't anonymous.

Gerard doesn't mind being Gerard. I've just really, I've messed this up big time, Gerard. What happened, Gerard? How did you cause evacuation? So, yeah, I was coaching a high school basketball team and I had this brilliant idea of naming our full-court press defence FIRE. Right. And so, yeah, deep into the second quarter, I'm on the sideline

and I get quite animated on the sideline. So I'm running up and down it, screaming to my team, FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Next thing, the fire alarm goes off and two courts and probably four teams and a whole lot of people are evacuated. Oh, my God. That is so good. You're like, oh, sorry, guys, that's the name of my full court press.

Did you have to rebrand the full court press after that incident? Well, what's a bit silly on my part is I didn't actually realise it was me that caused it. What's going on? I've seen the whole building looking for a fire. That's awesome. We're going to send you out a merch pack. Have yourself a great weekend. Thanks for sharing that with us.

Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Now we've got Anonymous. How are you? Anonymous? Hello, Anonymous. Hello. Sorry, I have had a shocker trying to get

you on the radio. You haven't pushed the button. Anonymous, what did you cause evacuations to? So basically I used to work at like a cafe and it was like a sandwich press kind of place and I accidentally left like a wet kind of cloth in the toaster machine. In the machine?

Yeah. Oh, from wiping it down. And basically, it caused a lot of smoke and the fire alarm went off and three fire trucks had to come by. And then about two weeks later, my boss was not happy and let me go. Oh, you got fired after causing the fire situation. I think so, but it was like maybe the last straw or something. You had a bit of a rocky road to that point. Was there a couple of straws beforehand?

Yeah. Well, I was 16 for the job. Yeah, no, I get you. Hey, well, that's so good. Thank you so much for calling. And it's merch madness. We've been collecting corporate clothing for four weeks, and we're going to give you a merch pack, all right?

Oh, perfect. Thank you. Enjoy that. A random Lucky Dip of Lucky... That was a bit of fun. Do you want a random Lucky Dip or a random other thing that Ben was offering? Lucky Dip with a P.

I don't like merch, so I'll take the other option. It's a random mate. It's not actually that lucky, to be honest. More disappointing. The podcast. The Manuka Fuel Symphony Festival is back. It's happening on

Saturday. 40,000 people are going to be there in the domain in Auckland. It's still an orchestra playing dance bangers with live singers, but now it's got epic DJ sets, Basement Jacks, Darude, Cyril. It's really huge. It went along last year. It's just such an incredible vibe. Everyone was actually young, old, whatever.

Everyone was just really nice and pleasant, which is really cool. I like nice and pleasant situations. You don't want to go into hostile situations, Ben. That's not the place to spend a Saturday night. Oh, you know how some people are sometimes drinking and all sorts of stuff, you know. But I felt like on the whole, and maybe only what I encountered,

everyone was just lovely, you know. Just everyone was just in a good mood, which was great. Chemically enhanced, feeling great. But what... No bad feelings. 40,000 people and, you know, we'd been there since in the afternoon.

If you want all the details, that's at stock.co.nz about what times everything's on. But it was getting towards the end of the day and we knew it was the last kind of song i was with my sister and amanda my wife and was like oh maybe we should just go now to get an uber because it's going to be hard to get out of there so we made our way we're at the front of the stage we made our way all the way through and we got out just as the last song was playing i was like this is a textbook yeah great concert exit just a textbook we're on our

way out as the last song of that thank you good night i'm like we have got a head start on everyone and then my sister goes uh-oh i'm like what she's like my phone i'm like don't say it not now she's like i haven't got my phone i'm like when did you last have it she's like up the front i'm like you mean up the front of 40 000 people at the front of the stage she's like yeah and she's like can you ring it i'm like well yeah i can but i mean yeah how are you how stressed are you about your exit now we're out we are we had actually left and we're like we're out and then i like we she's like i need to go back we try to ring it of course no one's going to hear it because there still was a and then we're late to drop her off at that point i

should have yeah you go get it to go back in and then they're like you can't come back in we're like. That's a drop her off at that point. I should have, yeah. You go get it. To go back in. And then they're like, you can't come back in. We're like, well, we'll get to go back in and get the phone. And we walked through. As people were leaving, we're the only ones. Like sardines going the wrong, you know, salmon going the wrong way. Got all the way. I'm like, I keep going. We're never going to find the phone.

Never going to find the phone. You're like, this is not textbook. Never going to find the phone. We got all the way to the front. And it took us about 15 minutes. And she's like, here it is. I'm like, what? Was it just sitting on the ground?

Yeah, she found it. And then it was just like, I was like, oh, well you have found the phone but we didn't get an Uber for like three hours. But anyway. Yeah, that's real.

I'm like happy for you but I'm still pissed about the situation. But a miracle. A miracle she found the phone. You should have dropped her off. Yeah, I should have. You're right.

Do it by yourself. She was lying on the ground. It was just exactly where she was. She was like, here we were and here it is. I'm like, oh're right. You're doing it by yourself. She's lying on the ground. It was just exactly where she was. She was like, here we were, and here it is. I'm like, oh, that's incredible. Eat your words. And strip yourself in for a four-hour trip home. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Moving pretty slowly. 6.20 on your Friday morning. Eden Park has got the endorsement from the Auckland Council to be the main stadium in Auckland, but apparently they're not putting money towards it or the government,

so it's all got to come from private investors. So they've gone, yeah, great. Oh, wait, what? What's the point of going to council? Hundreds of millions of dollars they need from private investors now, but that's the one that the council backed as the local one for the city.

Who was paying for the brand spanking new one? I think there was overseas investors. Yeah, it was investors as well. So it was just like The council Which one are they going to Put all their weight in behind And it's Eden Park So a retractable roof

Hopefully AKA are they going to Sign off the consents Just a little bit easier Yeah A little bit quicker So wait Excuse me

What was all that hoo-ha About the councillors Getting tickets from Eden Park If it wasn't anything To do with our money Well yeah I guess They've still endorsed it But at the same time

I don't think Media beat up mate Media beat up, mate. Media beat up. Seen it before, see it again. All right, time to get into the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. This is how we like to start our day. Now, fresh off two wins, guys. Yeah.

Ten from ten, two days in a row. Amazing. Wow, feeling good. Winning, pumping through our veins. Ellie, you've done the quiz? I have. And? Look, it's not as easy as the other two.

This is fine. But who knows? You might be fine. It's the ups and downs of quizzing, baby. Exactly. That's my experience. You might be smarter than me. Okay.

Question number one. What is the name of the famous fictional clown in Stephen King's novel It? Jingles, Pennywise, or Bozo? Pennywise. Nice. Well done. Good work. Dude of my nightmares.

I agree. Did you watch the latest one? Yeah, Bill Sarsga work. Dude of my nightmares. Yeah. I agree. Did you watch the latest one? Yeah, Bill Sarsgaard. I love that man. And then he played that horrible clown and it's ruined it for me. Yeah, it's pretty freaky. We made Ben watch it too on his own. It was frightening.

Headphones on and just really... A creepy little dance. Yeah. Yuck. Let's not talk about it. All right. Question number two. What kitchen appliance was invented by Percy Spencer as an accidental discovery?

Was it the refrigerator, the microwave oven, or the toaster? I think this is the microwave. Spencer. Yeah, I think I read this recently for some reason. Is it the microwave? That is correct. Yeah. Well done.

Yeah, they were trying to do something else, and they're like, why is it cooking? Oh, this is cooking food. Oh, okay. There you go. Dusted over it, obviously. Enough to get us onto question three. Well done. All right.

What technique did Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai popularize with his work The Great Wave of Kanagawa? Was it calligraphy, origami, or yukioi? I don't know how to say that. That's right. You're getting a good bash. That's the main thing. I don't think you've offended Japan there I hope not

So what's he He's invented It's a form of art I guess Origami What do you think origami Origami feels like it Tell you what

Should we go Let's go to our lifeline Okay Today just because it's Merch Madness We've been collecting merch On behalf of Megan Who doesn't like merch

All month And we're giving it all away today. You can call 0800THEHITS. It won't go to the text. 0800THEHITS. Can we just rephrase that question? Sorry, repeat the question. Sorry, Ellie.

Sure. What technique did Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai popularise with his work The Great Wave of Kanagawa? Was it calligraphy, origami, or I'm going to spell this, U-K-I-Y-O-E That made it more confusing. Yeah. 0800 the hits.

You'll win a merch pack regardless. Yep. And the money can't buy experience of getting us on to question number five. Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast.

The hits. The question was what technique did Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai popularise with his great or with his work The Great Wave off Kanagawa? The options were calligraphy, origami,

and I still can't say this word, yukioi. We've had a quick look, because we can have a look now that we're going to our Lifeline. Very distinctive wave picture. I've got pants at home with that on from my friend Motohiro from Nagoya. He sent them over to me.

So I should have probably known this, but I didn't realise until I Googled it. I was like, oh, I've got pants with that all over it. A great way, but I didn't know it was a great way. He could have inserted a little note, though, with a bit of a backstory about the pants. Exactly, it would have been nice. Nikita Morena. Morena. Lovely to have you on.

Welcome to the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Welcome to the fourth, third question. Third question. Third question. Your answer for this sucker. Yeah. To the fourth, third question. Third question. Third question, your answer for this sucker. Yeah, so you guys have to Google it, but it's a painting on a wooden block. It's not an art piece, so it's obviously not origami.

Can't remember what the first option was. It is the yukioi. No, it's not calligraphy, so it's the final option. That is correct. Yes. Congratulations, Nikita, and also congratulations. You've won yourself a merch madness pack. We've got a whole bunch of packs, random things,

so you could have anything like a general store cafe shirt, team apparel, tote bag, and an Outrigger Fiji cap. All those dreams have come true this morning at 6.30. Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for helping us out. You have a great weekend. Thanks, you too. See you, Nikita. Let's run back into it. Question number four now. Alright, who was the

first official world chess champion? Was it Bobby Fischer, Gary Kasparov or Wilhelm Steinitz? Nikita, you're still there. Not much about chess, dear. No, she's gone. Jeez, world Chess Champion.

This is just going to stab in the dark. Let's go, Bobby. Big Bobby. That is incorrect. It was Wilhelm Steiditz. Of course it was. Yeah, classic. Of course it was.

Do you guys play chess? Nah. I know how to play. Do you? It's just... What do you do? Mensa? Mensa.

Yeah, I know. I'm very Do you? It's just... What do you do? Mensa? Mensa. Yeah, I know. I'm very slow and don't see much ahead when I play people that know how to play chess. Oh, yeah. I can't be bothered with the looking ahead aspect of it. Yeah, or if they do that, then it's very tactical. It's a very clever game though, right? It is very clever.

I love to see you turn up to a chess tournament and you're like, I can't be bothered with all these people always thinking ahead and the game takes so long because everyone's like sitting there strategising you're like

just go just do your turn